Essays on Novel

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross “On The Fear of Death” argues that people have become frightened of death because the way people deal and cope with death has changed. Death has become lonely and dehumanizing since more deaths occur in a hospital than in a person’s own home…

One of the priorities of the criminal justice system is to punish the guilty and ensure justice. Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption is a true story that educates its audience on the failings of the criminal justice system, specifically from the shortcomings…

Something that makes the classic children’s novel A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle, such an interesting story is that it succeeds in straddling the border between science fiction and fantasy. It brings the two genres together by including, for example, both the concept of…

Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) was the Man-Booker Prize winning first novel. It is written in an epistolary style. The style of the story is in first-person narrative style. The contemporary Indian English literature captures the threat of violence. The narrator discloses his personal…

Since the beginning of time, people were born different; everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, but some flaws are seen worse than others; discrimination, therefore, becomes a common occurrence. In the essays, “Stranger in the Village” and “On Being a Cripple”, two types of…

At the time that E.M Forster wrote this novel about his experience about India, the British Raj was going on. The British took over India because they aided them but promised to give them a role in the government. Of course this did not happen…

The novel has many different locations in which it is set in. Most of White Fang takes place in the Yukon Territory which is a section of Canada. The territory is very icy and cold. The area is full of beautiful mountains and lakes. It…

The text The Crying of Lot 49 is a book written by Thomas Pynchon the dwells on the life of an American housewife. Distinctively, the setting of the book is in the 1960s when the postal system was the main medium of communication. In the…

The story narrates the life of a rich and materialistic woman named Rosemary who tries to be charitable and compassionate to others who are less unfortunate. However, her generosity is not genuine as has more to do with the novels of such selfless acts that…

Throughout history there has been an evolving unspoken standard of living, and if you do not meet those certain standards you can sometimes be looked down or discriminated upon. Any one can be discriminated against no matter who you are. You can be discriminated on…